Re: Solar boats and rickshaws a big hit

From: habshi (habshi_at_anony.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:09:04 GMT

         
Powering ahead with solar rickshaws
 
Prarthna Gahilote
 
New Delhi, December 30: MALCOLM J. Moss, the veteran environmentalist
from the English countryside, is here to promote the use of solar
rickshaws and boats to help conserve environment and provide an
alternative to fossil fuel.

The boats and rickshaws at present are successfully running both in
Udaipur and Kumbhalgarh, Moss’s haunts. In India with his amateur
cricket team Nomads, Moss, a chemist by profession, is using his four
days in India to convert more ordinary rickshaws into solar rickshaws
(these don’t have pedals) and riding them all the way to Udaipur.

 
 
And right after his arrival in Delhi (on December 27), Moss went
scouting for a brand new rickshaw in the Walled City. The rickshaw
will be converted into a solar one in Udaipur, aided by his sons James
(16) and Simon (12). Like his father, James too plays for the Nomads.

‘‘I am a technical nincompoop. If it had not been for James and Simon,
I wouldn’t have been able to put it together,’’ says Moss. This time
the father-sons, trio will be converting the vehicle into a solar one
in less than 36 hours, after they reach Udaipur on Tuesday.

And thanks to his innovation, Moss’s schedule has been packed: from
buying solar panels to meeting experts on solar vehicles in Delhi and
to organising the filming of the rickshaw-run planned for March next
year.

As an effort to promote the solar rickshaws and the boats and showcase
these as alternative vehicles, Moss, in collaboration with his old
friend and fellow dreamer Arvind Singh Mewar (Maharana of Mewar), has
a rally lined up for March 2003. The first international rally of its
kind, it will start from Neemrana and cover seven cities in Rajasthan
before ending in Udaipur.

‘‘The rally will have 10 different kinds of solar rickshaws out of
which two have been made in India, one in Australia, one in Ireland
and four in England,’’ says Moss and is quick to add: ‘‘This is the
first time passenger solar rickshaws will be out on the streets and
since all these are different designs, we would have a lot to offer.’’

Moss and his team will be driving these rickshaws, setting an
‘‘example of solar rickshaws as alternative to fossil fuel-run
vehicles’’.

The rickshaws, as compared to CNG autos, come cheap: Rs 30,000 but run
at a maximum speed of 35 kmph.

‘‘Environment is sacred and we can’t afford to fool around with it. In
less than 20 years, somebody somewhere will not have fossil fuel in
their vehicles to go to work. It is then that they will realise that
solar vehicles are important,’’ says Moss, preparing for the worst.
‘‘You will not see a single fossil fuel-run boat on the Thames after
20 years. We need to do the same here.
 

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